Movie director John Gayle is fired by his best friend, a producer. He goes to the beach and wanders into a carnival. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
The Passionate Friends (1949) David Lean, Ann Todd, Trevor Howard, Claude Rains, Drama
The Passionate Friends were in love when young, but separated, and she married an older man. Read More »
The Bamboo Blonde (1946) Anthony Mann, Frances Langford, Ralph Edwards, Russell Wade, Musical, War, Romance
A pilot of a B 29 meets Louise Anderson, a singer in a New York nightclub. He falls in love with her, but he had to leave next day for action in the Pacific. Read More »
Strange Impersonation (1946) Anthony Mann, Brenda Marshall, William Gargan, Hillary Brooke, Drama, Film-Noir
A research scientist conducting experiments on a new anaesthetic finds herself being blackmailed by a women she accidentally knocked down with her car Read More »
Pinky (1949) Elia Kazan, John Ford, Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, Drama
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother’s house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Read More »
I Dood It (1943) Vincente Minnelli, Red Skelton, Eleanor Powell, Richard Ainley, Romance, Comedy, Musical, Thriller
Constance Shaw is a dance star on Broadway, Joseph Rivington Renolds is a keen fan of her. Read More »
Race Street (1948) Edwin L. Marin, George Raft, William Bendix, Marilyn Maxwell, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Nice-guy bookie Dan Gannin plans to quit the racket; he’s opening a new night club with his torch-singing sister as main attraction. Read More »
Yellow Sky (1948) William A. Wellman, Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Crime, Western
A band of bank robbers on the run from a posse flee into the desert. Near death from lack of water they stumble into what appears to be a ghost town Read More »
What a Carry On! (1949) John E. Blakeley, Jimmy Jewel, Ben Warriss, Josef Locke, Comedy
Jewell and Warris join the army and under the watchful, friendly eye of Sergeant Locke somehow manage to get promoted despite causing maximum havoc along the way. Read More »
Noose / The Silk Noose (1948) Edmond T. Gréville, Carole Landis, Joseph Calleia, Derek Farr, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Sugiani, a black-market racketeer in London, following World War II, is amassing a vast fortune until Linda Medbury, an American newspaper reporter, learns about him and his operation. Read More »
Night Unto Night (1949) Don Siegel, Ronald Reagan, Viveca Lindfors, Broderick Crawford, Drama, Romance
A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida’s east coast. Read More »
The Noose Hangs High (1948) Charles Barton, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Joseph Calleia, Comedy
Abbott and Costello are two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers that he sent to pick up $50,000. Read More »
Fabiola (1949) Alessandro Blasetti, Michèle Morgan, Henri Vidal, Michel Simon, Drama, History
In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a gallic gladiator. When Fabiola’s father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to be a christian and is accused of the murder and sentenced to fight to death in the arena.
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Rise and Shine (1941) Allan Dwan, Jack Oakie, George Murphy, Linda Darnell, Comedy, Crime, Musical, Romance, Sport
Stupid football player is kidnapped by gangsters. Lunatics abound: former footballer now dancer, professor interested in magic, gangster who makes horse noises when excited. Read More »
Girl in 313 (1940) Ricardo Cortez, Florence Rice, Kent Taylor, Lionel Atwill, Crime, Drama, Romance
A police agent infiltrates a gang of jewel thieves and on the way to finding who the evildoers are, falls in love with a thief. Read More »